Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Why should executives who aren’t even coming into the building get the vaccine before the front-line health-care workers get it?

 

Seriously - ER nurses first, then ER doctors and surgeons - after that...

 

Execs from the local hospitals here have taken it, to reassure their employees that it’s safe. And only one exec from each hospital.

 

If you just want to go by reducing as much death as possible, all health care workers should get in line behind everyone 70+

 

I don't know what came of it, but Stanford was in hot water a year or two ago with hospital acquired infections. There was a heavy PR campaign on both sides trying to make you believe the other was of the devil. This doesn't shock me.

 

Fox News weathercaster Janice Dean, who lost her in-laws in New York nursing homes and has been one of Gov. Cuomo’s fiercest critics, broke down at the end of a year in review segment on Fox & Friends

Janice Dean Breaks Down in Tears After Fox & Friends Montage

 

I understand that but the medical folks are in contact daily with covid, they can't prevent that. 70 and 60 and 80 and all in between can do things to avoid it. generally speaking

 

ICU staff, too.

 

The Pac 12 is, in some ways, a very noteworthy story.
Back in the first week in September, the league announced that it had a deal with a company to provide rapid daily testing. This, some said, would be a game-changer. Why, then, was that announcement not accompanied by a statement that the game-changing development would permit the conference to play in the fall? Why did it take until others began playing? Maybe because they knew if college football did real contact tracing and applied the same definitions of close contact to football as health departments used with the general population, very few games could be played.

 

Been fighting to resist the urge to reply to a reasonable impassioned FB post from a coach whose kid is a senior on a very good team. The "Let Them Play" sentiment is running really deep back at home, not to mention the whole 'unrepeatable events' problem I mentioned a few days ago. I think a lot of that is because there just isn't that much to do in a U.P. winter if you don't have a sport or other activity. Michigan is apparently making another attempt to finish the football tournament but has banned indoor high school athletics until at least mid-January, and since the MHSAA (and most high school athletic associations I've seen) are trying very hard to keep COVID from ruining two of any particular season, they are probably going to get a half of a season at best, and with no fans.

But to avoid writing it there, I'll write it here:

1. Why are high school athletics more worth accommodating than any other interscholastic, or for that matter, scholastic activity?
The most likely answer is the documented increase in mental health issues among sidelined athletes, at which case the follow-up is why is your kid's mental trauma more worth accommodating than the things my (hypothetical) kid is losing, or me for that matter?
2. Why does your (rational) self-interest give you the right to determine what is an acceptable risk for the community?
The "I feel fine" and "only old people die" excuses, for me, go straight out the window as soon as we knew people could catch and transmit this asymptomatically. Your Junior may be a ticking time bomb. Imagine you had to push a button that would blow up one house in your town at random. Maybe it's empty. Maybe it's a family with five kids. How many houses would have to be in the town before we wouldn't evacuate every house?
3. What makes this calamity worse than any other thing that could have happened to your kid?
Say he blows out his knee, bad, and can't rehab back in time to play this year, or rolls over his car and ends up with a steel plate in his head (happened in my area). What makes this bad break more worth remedying than the others?